2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Application of functional saccharide sweetener for teething cookies

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22500750
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	Mukogawa Women's University
Principal Investigator	HANASAKI Noriko 武庫川女子大学, 生活環境学部, 教授 (10228504)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	パラチノース / 歯がため焼菓子
Research Abstract	Palatinose is a modestly-sweet functional saccharide without decaying property. We have studied the quality and taste of baked sweets affected by ratios of palatinose to sugar. Palatinose cookies did not spread so much but rather swelled substantially. They also indicated relatively high hardness in the fracture tests and orgnoleptic evaluations. Furthermore,they led to significantly longer chewing duration,iteration,and higher muscle activity,which makes them promising for the teething application.

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